REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION I.A. No.2310/2008, I.A. Nos. 2378-2379/2009, I.A. No. 2269, I.A. No. 2270, I.A. No. 2393, I.A. Nos. 2381-2384 IN W.P. (C) No. 4677 OF 1985 M.C. Mehta ....Petitioner versus Union of India & Ors. .... Respondents In Re : Kant Enclave matters WITH I.A. Nos. 2310-2311 IN W.P. (C) No. 202/1995

J U D G M E N T

Madan B. Lokur, J

1. The principal question that arises in this batch of substantive applications is whether, in the State of Haryana, land notified under the provisions of the Punjab Land Preservation Act, 1900 (for short the PLP Act) is forest land or is required to be treated as forest land. If so, whether Signature Not Verified D SA ig N ita J l A ly Y s K ig U n M ed A b R y construction carried out by the applicant R. Kant & Co. on this land is in Date: 2018.09.11

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contravention of the notification dated 18^th August, 1992 issued under the provisions of the PLP Act, the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 and decisions of this Court.

2. Our answer to both the questions is in the affirmative. We have no doubt that land notified by the State of Haryana under the provisions of the PLP Act must be treat